In Woody Allen's Oscar-winning "Midnight in Paris," a nostalgic dreamer played by Owen Wilson gets a lift from a well-dressed couple in a vintage automobile and finds himself whisked back in time to the Roaring '20s. His tour guide? None other than F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of the quintessential Jazz Age novel, "The Great Gatsby."

The immigration debate in the Senate has at times been intensely personal, with senators taking the floor to tell stories of their own immigrant roots. Children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Italy, Ireland, Ukraine, Lithuania and Cuba rose to describe how their families became American.

"This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer," wrote President Rutherford B. Hayes. "It is a government by the corporations, of the corporations, and for the corporations."

As a child in England, Jacqueline Winspear remembered seeing her grandfather sitting in the kitchen, soaking his scarred legs. Wounded by shrapnel at the Battle of the Somme in 1916 during World War I, he was still removing minuscule bits of metal from his skin until the day he died at 77 in 1966.